Right in the kisser: Tell us your favorite movie mouth-to-mouth

Apparently today is International Kissing Day, a global extension of the quasi-holiday founded in the UK before spreading its germy brand to foreign shores. We’re all stuck with it now, but you know what they say: When life throws you lemons, watch Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in the greatest kiss ever captured for the screen. Or… something.

Your mileage may vary when it comes to this legendary scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious, itself a perfect film, but come on: It shouldn’t vary too much. Either way, let’s hear your kissing-scene preference if you’ve got one. (This was so much easier on National Doughnut Day.)

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I’m going with the original 1968 version of “The Thomas Crown Affair:” When Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway give into their mutual desire after a game of chess, in which a raised eyebrow or a prolonged gaze means as much as — if not more than — any move of a pawn, it’s sizzling. Almost like fully clothed, passion-fueled wrestling.

I always got a kick out of the duo’s acting in their one shared scene in “The Towering Inferno” six years later, where they looked like they barely knew each other. Yeah. RIGHT.